Currently, popular social networking website Twitter, seems to be finding it near on impossible to stay out of the news at the moment – for all the wrong reasons.

Earlier this week, DPS Computing reported how a well known security employee of firm F-Secure was sensationally booted off the website (before being reinstanted) for attempting to warn its users about a phising website.

Now Twitter has once again come under fire as users have found that the seemingly innocent process of changing ones username, e-mail address or password has resulted in them being locked out of their accounts.  This has caught out both experienced users and newbies alike.

Does Twitter have a solution?  It would appear not as the firms current advice is “Don’t do it” – referring to the process of changing a username, e-mail address or password.

The problem has now persisted for a week according to early reports of the problem acknowledged by the social networking site who at first suggested that users were at fault due to a cacheing issue.

DPS Computing has recieved word a matter of minutes ago that the long awaited Sky TV functionality on Microsofts Xbox 360 system is to go live this month on October 27th.

Microsofts Xbox community manager for Europe, Mr Boyd, revealed on popular social networking site Twitter just moments ago – ““October 27 – that’s the date when you’ll be able to watch TV from Sky on your Xbox 360. Channel line-up and pricing to come at launch.”

As details have yet to be confirmed it is at the moment unknown whether Xbox users who are not also Sky TV customers will have access to the service.  This is likely to be revealed when the pricing structure is revealed at launch time.

DPS Computing will of course keep you up to date with this news story as it develops.

Rumours are circulating that Apple, makers of the popular iPhone, are to release a new app allowing the iPhone to play FM Radio.  Although the iPhone is currently capable of recieving FM signals their isn’t currently an app for recieving FM radio broadcasts.

The application is also rumoured to include live pausing of a broadcast as well as tune tagging – which enables a listener to gather more information on the song currently playing or purchase the track from a retailer.

DPS Computing will bring you more information on this as it becomes available.

September 2009 proved to be an excellent month for ever growing DPS Computing.  Not only did the computing company release their brand new websites but the website, which aims to provide for all your computing needs, also experienced its most popular month ever since its inception way back in October 2006.

In the month of September, DPS Computing had no less than 450 different unique visitors.

Less than halfway through the month of October, the total amount of unique visitors already stands at 350, with predictions suggesting another recording breaking month for the computing website.

Site founder David Smith said “Its great to see that the site is going from strength to strength at the moment and I sincerly hope this continues.  The new website has now been launched and the content is coming thick and fast so we hope to cater for all of our exisiting visitors and fans as well as the new ones that we are attracting.  I would once again like to thank all the supporters of DPS Computing, some of whom have followed us since our inception back in 2006 and we remain firmly commited to being ‘Number 1′ and providing the best computing website for our visitors”.

New research published by Virgin Media, the countries largest cable services provided, suggests that many people being anxious, worried and stressed if they lose their access to the Internet.

A spokesperson to for Virgin Media said that while an “Always On” lifestyle isn’t for everyone their research shows that many Britons depend on their Internet access from everything from shopping to gaming to socialising to getting information and sorting out their affairs.

For many people, knowing that they are connected to the Internet seems like a lifeline that gives them piece of mind.

Carphone Warehouse today recieved a huge blow as rival Phones 4 U secured a deal which will see the company stocking Apples popular iPhone before Christmas.  Carphone Warehouse, up until now, have enjoyed a two year monopoly on providing the device to customers.

This deal comes a matter of days after Apple also ended their exclusive deal with telecom giant O2, who are now going to allow rivals Vodaphone and Orange sell the popular phone.

These deals will undoubtebly be better for consumers as the rivalry will no doubt involve a pricing competition war right in time for the festive season.

The announcement could be viewed as cynically timed as the iPhone has recently recieved less attention as the release of the Palm Pre device draws closer.

Electronics firm Openmoko has today released a new portable electronic device called WikiReader which aims to take Wikipedia even further as an educational tool.

The offline version of mobile Wikipedia available on the device is hoped to bring Wikipedia into the forefront of encyclopedia based education and it is hoped that it will lead to a bigger uptake in the classroom.

The main fear however appears to be that due to the lack of Internet connectivity of the device, inaccuracies that are normally ironed out by frequent Wikipedia editors may persist for a long time unchecked due to the fact that updates are only due to be released every few months.

Despite this, its creator, Thomas Meyerhoffer – a former designer for technology giant Apple, believes that the device will be a success and that its advantages outweigh its disadvantages.

Unlike other mobile devices which appear to consume electricity for fun, the new WikiReader is said to be able to last months on a pair of triple A batteries.

Trouble appears to be on the horizon however as Apple are rumoured to be realeasing a very similar device sometime in 2010 but with added Internet connectivity, which could make that device more desirable.  However WikiReader has got a chance at the moment to gain a firm foothold on the market.

Openmoko have lashed out at reports of Apples device by claiming that their device is safer and more child friendly – meaning that constant supervision from parents is not required when using their device.

Martha Lane Fox, founder of lastminute.com and currently the digital inclusion champion for a government task force, has estimated that the British economy would be £22 billion a year better off if all homes were connected to the Internet.  The aim of the government task force is to get everyone online by 2012 as there is estimated to be around a substantional 14 million households without Internet access currently.

The exact way in which this will happen is as yet unknown but it has been agreed that success depends on the cooperation of the public and private sectors.

The majority of the extra money estimated to enter the economy due to digital inclusion comes from the expected increase in online sales.

The “Race Online 2012″ report that has made these finding also announces that it expects online individuals to rake in an extra £12,000 over their lifetimes compared to offline individuals.

Sponsers of the government initiative have pooled £12 million together to help get these people online and are being led by communication watchdog Ofcom.

Mikko H. Hyppönen, a researcher for F-secure, an antivirus company, was sensationally booted off Twitter after trying to warn its users about a malware threat.

Twitter, in characteristically slow fashion, only showed the door to Mr Hyppönen 2 months after his alleged violation of the sites terms.

He categorically denied trying to mislead users into visiting the malware site which was one of the many fraudlent websites purporting to be the popular social networking site MySpace.  He stated that he even put spaces in the link so that it didn’t auto link to prevent users from even accidently visiting the website.

Twitters private response to the security researcher was brief – “I’ve unsuspended your account. … Be careful!”

The founders of popular social networking site Twitter are said to be looking at different ways to implement video tweets to complement the already present text tweets and bring the site into the 21st century.

Twitter, which as yet has failed to make a profit, has been snubbed recently by many people, including British signer Lily Allen and Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus.  The founders hope that this move will improve the popularity of the website and help it become more of a competitor against some of its biggest rivals including Facebook and MySpace.

The new “video tweets” would be able to be uploaded anywhere at anytime, and even on the go, from laptops, mobile phones, digital camcorders and any device capable of recording video.

Twitter is currently valued by the market at £603 million and the founders will be hoping that this new announcement will increase that amount even further.